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Diomede Islands

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Diomede Islands (Russian: Ostrova Gvozdeva), Russia‐USA Straddling the International Date Line, the two islands are divided between Russia and the USA and were so named because they were discovered in 1728 on St Diomede's Day (16 August) by Vitus Bering^†. Big Diomede Island is on the Russian side and is known to them as Ostrov Ratmanova ‘Ratmanov Island’; Little Diomede Island is on the American side. The two islands together are called the Gvozdev Islands after the Russian scientist and explorer, Mikhail Gvozdev (d. c.1759), who surveyed them in 1732.

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Diomede Islands

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Diomede Islands , pair of rocky islands in Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia. The larger island, Big Diomede, is Russian, while the smaller is part of Alaska. At 2 mi (3 km) apart, the Diomedes represent the closest approach of U.S. and Russian land masses. The first European explorer to the islands was the Danish Vitus Bering in 1728.

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